IT security experts warn of phishing kit peril

Friday, 12 January 2007, 12:15 AM EST

Security experts have warned that a previously undocumented phishing kit is being sold and used online by fraudsters.

The newly uncovered Universal Man-in-the-Middle Phishing Kit is designed to allow cyber-criminals to create sophisticated attacks against global organisations in which the victims communicate with a legitimate website via a fraudulent URL.

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The code redirects visitors to another URL where the Fiesta exploit kit is hosted, which then tries to detect and exploit several vulnerabilities in various software. If it succeeds, the visitors are saddled with a banking Trojan.

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